NASHIK: The Nashik city police has made it mandatory for citizens to seek permission for weddings. Commissioner of police Deepak Pandey said a one-window system for granting permission to wedding ceremonies would be set up at the police commissionerate.
In view of the resurgence of Covid-19 infection, not more than 100 people would be allowed in wedding ceremonies as per government guidelines.
The aim of the police is to ensure they are aware about the weddings taking place in different parts of the city so that they can keep a tab and ensure that all the safety Covid guidelines, like use of mask, social distancing and use of sanitizers, is being adhered to at the events.
While granting permission, the police will instruct the concerned parties about the maximum limit of guests at the wedding ceremony and also apprise them about other Covid appropriate behavior.
While the police will ensure that all the wedding events taking place in the city have obtained prior permission, action will be taken against the organisers for failing to take the requisite permission.
The patrolling teams would also ensure that there are not more than 100 guests at the weddings.
There are a large number of wedding halls in the Nandur Naka and Panchavati area of the city. On specific ‘muhurats’ of a wedding, the traffic on the Mumbai Agra highway and Aurangabad highway under the Adgaon police stations comes to a standstill due to the rush of guests arriving at these wedding halls.